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DISASTROUS LANDSLIDE.
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Arth to Brunnen, which was a formidable thing. A mass of conglomerate two miles long, a thousand feet broad and a

GOLDAU VALLEY BEFORE AND AFTER THE LANDSLIDE.

hundred feet thick, broke away from a cliff three thousand feet high and hurled itself into the valley below, burying four villages and five hundred people, as in a grave.

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